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South America > Argentina > Government

ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city Buenos Aires
Corruption 2.8 [98th of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 28% [9th of 143]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 35 % ... [10th of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 15 ... [10th of 171]
Status
federal democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal and compulsory
Time required to build a warehouse > days 288 days ... [25th of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 520 days ... [72nd of 171]
Time required to register property > days 44 days ... [94th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 32 days ... [97th of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 615 hours ... [18th of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 2.8 years ... [83rd of 151]
Total businesses registered > number 388,658 ... [28th of 71]
Trademarks, nonresidents 19,139 ... [3rd of 99]
Trademarks, residents 61,953 ... [4th of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
Argentina continues to assert its claims to the UK-administered Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in its constitution, forcibly occupying the Falklands in 1982, but in 1995 agreed no longer to seek settlement by force; territorial claim in Antarctica partially overlaps UK and Chilean claims (see Antarctic disputes); unruly region at convergence of Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay borders is locus of money laundering, smuggling, arms and illegal narcotics trafficking, and fundraising for extremist organizations; uncontested dispute between Brazil and Uruguay over Braziliera/Brasiliera Island in the Quarai/Cuareim River leaves the tripoint with Argentina in question; in January 2007, ICJ provisionally ruled Uruguay may begin construction of two paper mills on the Uruguay River, which forms the border with Argentina, while the court examines further whether Argentina has the legal right to stop such construction with potential environmental implications to both countries; the joint boundary commission, established by Chile and Argentina in 2001 has yet to map and demarcate the delimited boundary in the inhospitable Andean Southern Ice Field (Campo de Hielo Sur)
UN membership date 24 Oct. 1945
United Nations mission
Http://www.un.int/argentina/english/index.htm>Http://www.un.int/argentina/english/index.htm>Http://www.un.int/argentina/english/index.htm
http://www.mrecic.gov.ar/ (espanol)
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood Dupont Circle

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Argentina, Argentine Republic, Republica Argentina

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